“About twenty years ago, I thought it was ridiculous that I'd never read Ulysses and I thought I never would read it if I just went on leading the ordinary life one does. Not enough leisure. I promised myself I would take a cargo boat across the Atlantic and take Ulysses and nothing else. I took this cargo boat from Boston to Southampton. It took about three weeks and I read Ulysses with delight. It's one of the nicest trips I ever did. On this very comfortable boat—there was practically nobody on board at all—I had a cabin like a cathedral, played bad bridge with a Spanish purser in the evening, and I'd taken a case of vodka with me, because you aren't allowed to buy liquor, and that endeared me to the Captain. I had a lovely time lying on a deck chair in the sun reading Ulysses.”

Pryce-Jones was one of London's Bright Young Things. He later became editor of the Times Literary Supplement (1948 to 1959). His son David Pryce-Jones wrote a biography of Unity Mitford. The controversial book, done without access to Unity's papers (which were under the control of her nephew Jonathan Guinness), created difficulties between Jessica Mitford and her surviving sisters (see The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters).

Note: Though the Pryce-Jones voyage sounds divine, one need not go to such extremes. Marilyn Monroe read Ulysses in a park—if press photos can be believed (which they cannot).